| Peter Littlewood | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1955 |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Physicist |
| Organization | Cavendish Laboratory |
| Awards | Member of the Royal Society |
Peter Littlewood (born 1955) is a British physicist and former head of the Cavendish Laboratory. He previously headed the Theory of Condensed Matter group and the Theoretical Physics Research department at Bell Laboratories.[1]
He is a long-standing fellow and alumnus of Trinity College, Cambridge, and he was awarded a Kennedy Scholarship to attend MIT in 1976. He was elected as a member of the Royal Society in 2007 for his contributions to the theory of collective phenomena in condensed matter physics, the discovery of amplitude collective mode in superconductors, the invention of marginal Fermi liquid phenomenology for cuprate superconductors, and other work involving friction and force flow.[2]